Trump, and the executives at Knight Insurance Group (and their Axos Bank parthers), they're acting as if Trump will win his appeal and therefore there was never any need for them to comply with either the spirit or the letter of the laws of New York. It's all been just a scam for them, to keep New York happy while they continue to do business as usual. In other words, Trump considers himself, as he's always done, to be above the law.

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Eventually SCOTUS will rule that a candidate can't be put on trial in an election year.

#7 | Posted by REDIAL

And then we'll have every embezzler, inside-trader, scam artist, etc running for office if they're indicted.

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The problem is that while the public may never learn the identities of the jurors, the prosecution and Trump's defense team will know their names and particulars since that information will be provided to them during the voir dire process. And if Trump's lawyers have that information, then Trump will have it as well, which means that anyone he wants to share it with, he will.

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Very little 'money' is being sent to Ukraine. The money is being spent in the US on wages and material to produce weapon systems which are sent to Ukraine, and even then most of what we've sent was existing equipment which was already getting old. And most of the money being spent now, except for ammo and expendables, is going to replace material already sent, and which will be used by our military.

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And you think it was the Democrats who de-funded this program, eh?

OCU

Republicans only want the people in the rural parts of country to get their news from Fox News and NewsMax. They can't have people accessing search engines to fact check Trump and the RNC.

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Back, well before COVID, I had an arrangement with my boss where I worked in the office Monday thru Thursday and from home on Friday. It started out when my wife's mother had a stroke and she moved in with us and my wife retired early to take care of her. Prior to that she had a job in a dentist office that was ACTUALLY a four day workweek. For years she had a three-day weekend and since Thursday was her 'Friday' that became our 'date night' as the restaurants weren't as busy. Then Friday morning she'd go to Mass and out for coffee with her lady friends from church. After her mother moved in and she had retired, she started to miss her Fridays so that's when I cut the deal with my boss. Since most of what I did was online anyway, it was no problem to work from home as I would take my company laptop home with me and just link into our internal network via a secure login. So I would work from home Fridays and watch my mother-in-law so that my wife could still enjoy her normal Fridays. I did this for about eight years, until a year or so after my wife's mother passed, then I finally retired myself.

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It was not a building site, but rather a suite of 3rd-floor offices in downtown Phoenix.

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And how much of the sale price will they have to handover to Trump for his campaign and his legal defense fund?

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Trump was asked if now that the bond has been reduced if he'll start putting money back into his ccampaign to become President.
He said yes, and then it was none of the reporter's business.

He just can't help himself.

#23 | Posted by YAV

Trump has never spent a dime of HIS own money in any of his campaigns.

In 2016 he bragged about how he was so rich that he wouldn't need to ask anyone for any money, that he was going to pay for all of it himself. Well, he loaned his campaign $10.8 million, and then started to ask for donations and when they had collected enough money, he paid back the loan (probably with interest). That was the last time Trump put any of his own money into a campaign and then it was only a loan, which was paid back as soon as the campaign could afford it.

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I think most if not all of this "judgement" goes away. There's no real crime here, there are no victims. The appellate court clearly sees this to a certain extent (even if they do not like him).

#15 | Posted by Bluewaffles

Then may I suggest that the next time you have to fill-out a credit application when buying a house or a car, that you lie about how much you've got in the bank or how big your weekly paycheck is, and then watch how far your claim that there were "no victims" goes when you're being charged with fraud. Or try that "no victims" argument the next time you get a speeding ticket or have to pay an overdraft fee at the bank.

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And of course, the judge was a Trump appointee...

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It appears that the appeals court in New York, while they've not reduced the total fraud judgement against Trump, they've modified what it is that he must do to prevent his assets from being seized while he's appealing the case. It seems that he's been given 10-days to come up with $175 million in cash, which the court will now accept in lieu of the full $454 million, which was the original order, before the state can start to take steps to collect the full amount of the judgement.

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This whole Ronna McDaniel NBC/MSNBC thing is strange. You hear comments that she's been hired, then there's rumors that NBC has rescinded their offer and then you have other NBC/MSNBC personnel acting like it's a done deal and they're very upset about it. And now we have reports that McDaniel has come out making comments about what happened on January 6th which are 180 from any of her previous statements. It's been further reported that she said that while she was head of the RNC, she had no choice but to follow the 'company line', however, she's now no longer bound by that situation. And one other thing, it's been reported that since she has already admitted to having spoken with Trump several times leading up to January 6ht, that she could be a potential witness, for one side or the other, if Trump's insurrection trial ever gets scheduled. If this is true, I can't see how NBC, or any media organization for that matter, would even want to hire her as she's potentially 'radioactive'.

OCU

There are reports that MSNBC is having second thoughts and this is NOT going to happen.

OCU

Note that one of Trump's 'assets' that's going to be hard for him to hide the fact that it had been seized is Trump's 757 private jet, which he and his supporters refer to as 'Trump Force One'. He uses it to fly to all of his rallies, many of which are held at airports with Trump's jet as a backdrop. It's not going to be a good look for him when he's spotted waiting in line to board a Southwest Airline flight while holding a 'Group C' boarding pass.

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Trump only hires the best...

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The NY fraud case was judged solely by a DA and a judge ...

#17 | Posted by fishpaw

And if Trump had hired good lawyers, they would have asked for a jury trial for their client, which was his right, but they appeared to not be aware that there was a deadline by which they had to make that request. When they missed the deadline, Trump blamed the judge and the DA, not the idiots that he'd hired. But then, based on his history paying lawyers, he got what he paid for.

OCU

And I'm sure that Trump sent him a congratulatory message noting his win in such as hard-fought election.

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No, Trump has already suggested that if he wins in 2024, it'll be either Don Jr or Eric who'll be running in 2028.

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OCU, we need a link, Bro...

#57 | Posted by Wardog

Now Trump is saying that if he's elected, he's going to order Liz Cheney, and the other members of the House Select Committee that investigated the January 6th attack on the Capital, arrested because they withheld information from the American people which would have exonerated him.

OCU

I wonder if Trump is aware that a large percentage of what he considers 'foreign' cars are actually built here in America. And conversely, many vehicles with 'American' brand names are built in Canada and Mexico.

Now we have Trump making comments about the country suffering a 'bloodbath' if he loses the election. There are people out there who'll take that as a message to act in a manner which he may not be able put back in the bottle.

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Even in engineering school, 3.14159 was good enough since the next digit was a '2', which meant any rounding would not have changed the '9'.

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